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noun
Spongy, abnormal growth, as granulation tissue formed in a wound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
plural of fungus
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
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Synonyms: funguses, fungusses
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Alternative spelling of fungee (“a cornmeal dish from the Caribbean, usually made with okra and served with salt fish, shellfish, or chicken”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A style of folk and popular music from the Virgin Islands, traditionally performed by bands consisting of banjo, guitar, ukulele, and washboard with various percussion instruments on rhythm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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Synonyms: quelbe, scratch
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools; distinct from the green plants
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: kingdom Fungi, fungus kingdom
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: kingdom
History
Borrowed from Latin fungī, from fungus + -ī (suffix forming the nominative or vocative plurals of most second-declension nouns ending in -us).
See fungee. Sense 2 (“style of folk and popular music”) is apparently from the fact that the music is a blend of different musical instruments and styles, just as the dish (sense 1) is a blend of different flavours.
Across languages
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